gladiator
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One speaks of a gladiator in the singular, but we learn from Mr. Sidebottom that there were at least nine different types of gladiator: the murmillo, the thraex, the retiarius, the eques and so on.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
On this week’s Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick talked with election law gladiator Marc Elias, chair of Elias Law Group and founder of Democracy Docket.
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2026
“She’d go out there and be the last gladiator standing if it were up to her.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2026
Raising his house’s reputation as a formidable gladiator stable is the only path he can see to being accepted into society’s highest echelon.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025
Still enraged from the disrespectful way he felt he’d been treated during his visit to Moscow a year before, Bobby began acting the role of a Cold War gladiator.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Vocabulary lists containing gladiator
Ancient Rome - Introductory
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The Roman and Byzantine Empires, Lessons 3–4
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